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Baba Ramdev's infertility medicine ad not misleading: Paswan
Kolkata, May 1
Even as the controversy over
Baba Ramdev's infertility medicine rages on, union Food, Public
Distribution and Consumer Protection Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on
Friday that its advertisement cannot be classified as "misleading" and
assured that the matter was being probed.
"When people don't get
the promised results as claimed by a product, then only it can be termed
as misleading... This product cannot be classified under misleading
advertisement," he told media persons here.
"The issue which is
raging on in parliament is about when the government is promoting 'Beti
Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign, why is this medicine promoting only male
child," he said.
According to Paswan, while allopathic medicines
can be tested in laboratories and thereafter animal-testing can be done
to analyse its "effects and after-effects", homeopathic and ayurvedic
medicines cannot be done so.
"Promoting only a male child is illegal... The union home and heath ministers are already looking into it," he said.
The
issue had caused an uproar in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday when members
raising the issue of the product, 'Divya Putrajeevak Seed' and seeking a
response from the government. Health Minister J.P. Nadda assured that
the government "will look into it and action will be taken".
The
website of Ramdev's Divya Pharmacy prices the product at $10.99 and the
description says it is a "unique herbal product of putrajeevak which is
aphrodisiac, controls habitual abortion and helps in (curing)
sterility".